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A rising star on the indie film circuit is a Canadian-American-Pakistani who is grappling with issues of identity

Fawzia Mirza’s film Signature Move has great performances, comedic moments and is a reminder of how complicated familial

An experimental novel about race, belonging and the loss of a mother

Despite obvious differences, the lives of those who have made it in the world and those who want to make it, are not all

The desire to belong, to find sympathy and understanding, can lead to dire consequences

Fates and Furies is a novel that is somewhat reminiscent of Gone Girl, at the outset at least

Meghan Daum’s collection of essays are honest, witty and worth a read

Elizabeth Gilbert guides creative people on how to overcome their mental blocks

The award-winning book is a powerful commentary on the broken American dream

For a novel about death and the afterlife, Neil Smith’s Boo is anything but dreary

Edward St Aubyn’s Lost for Words effectively satirises the world of literary prizes

Emma Healey’s prize-winning novel lives up to its hype

IF she’s not that kind of girl, then what kind of girl is she?At 28, Lena Dunham is the kind of girl who allegedly...

TO those fortunate enough to have known him, Akhtar bin Shahid Jafri, or simply A.B.S., was a towering personality....

MEDIA Safety in Pakistan: A Study of Threats to Journalists in Pakistan, published by the Pakistan Institute for...

BACK in the day, I wrote a piece in Dawn op-ed on feminism, saying something like feminism needed to be more...

Akhil Sharma’s Family Life is shaping up to be quite the literary sensation here in the US. There was Meg...

THERE’S a bit in Gary Shteyngart’s memoir, Little Failure, in which he recounts how his parents call him,...

“One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.” So said Pauline, Emma Brockes’ mother,...

The trouble with reading a book that has garnered a lot of bad press is that you’ve been set up to have an opinion...